student response to nap - Section 1: Bellringer: It's All About Naps

Identifying Who Awakes in Act IV of MidSummer Night’s Dream

Unit 5: MidSummer Night's Dream
Lesson 6 of 11

Objective: SWBAT draw inferences on the reaction of characters who awaken in a play, determine how to actions of Oberon moves characters to make decisions about love, and explore a possible theme in relation the characters, setting, and plot of the play.

At this time in the play, characters are starting to awaken which introduces more suspense and conflicts to readers. Prior to reading about the lovers, students respond to the following question in their notebooks

How do you feel after a good nap/sleep?

I want students to connect to the feelings of the lovers as they are decide to go to sleep. Students naturally would not think that falling asleep in this story is a big deal but its timing in this act creates a life-changing event once each character awakens. Just as the lovers in the play experience newness as they awaken, so do humans when changes occur during or after their rest. Students will share their student response to nap with a shoulder buddy. To end the discussion, one volunteer will read their response to conclude this activity with the class.

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Can effects to causes by similar to reactions? To understand this concept more, students will work on a handout entitled, Cause & Reaction Paragraphs. I will give students the number 1 or 2. From here students will work in pairs to understand causes, effects, and reactions.

Once pairs are done, students will share out their example with the class. Here we will determine if causes in Act IV develops positive or negative effects/reactions for characters whoawaken from their sleep.

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Students will listen to the audio version of Act IV to understand what happens to the characters as they awaken from their sleep. Once students finish listening to the play, they will work on the following

I will facilitate the learning in the active reading center while the other center is done independently by students. From students’ answers done in these stations, a theme can be developed based on the literary elements of characters and symbols in the play. The impact of learning from the activities are all explained in my reflection of awaken handout video.